Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:27:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Kraemer <brian@etchings.com> To: Tom Beer <mailings@analogon.com> Cc: <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Putty & SSH Message-ID: <20011026092247.P2138-100000@kosh.etchings.com> In-Reply-To: <006801c15dee$471d80c0$0901a8c0@system>
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The putty developers had/have some security concerns with DSA keys (what most ssh 2.0 implementations use) so they don't support them. There is hope however; Here's an exchange I had with one of the putty developers. -Brian Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:58:33 +0100 From: Simon Tatham To: Brian Kraemer Subject: Re: [putty]public key authentication for ssh 2 Brian Kraemer wrote: > The section about DSA keys in your "non-wish list" on the putty web page > seems to indicate that public key authentication for ssh 2 is not > implemented at all (and probably won't be). Is this a true statement? Not any more. It was at the time of the 0.51 release, but since then the major SSH server implementors have introduced the possibility of RSA keys in SSH 2, and the development snapshots of PuTTY and PuTTYgen do support it, as will the upcoming 0.52 release. > Can you use RSA (or another type) keys with ssh 2? Sorry, I'm not > completely up to speed on all the workings of SSH/SSH2. That's perfectly all right. SSH 2 has inherent support for multiple key types, but RSA was only introduced to the drafts fairly recently, so you could easily be forgiven for not having known about it yet :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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